Parental Insecure Attachment Styles and Clinical Psychological Symptoms in Adolescent Children: The Mediating Role of Coparenting

Adult Romantic Attachment and Parental Reflective Functioning in Parents of Pre-School Children: An Association Study With a Sex-Sensitive Approach

Background: Parental reflective functioning (PRF) has important developmental roles in the offspring. The relationship between parents’ attachment style and PRF, as well as their intergenerational transmission, have been object of investigation in recent years, however, the studies have been mostly limited to mothers a...

Intergenerational transmission of attachment patterns in families of adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: the mediating role of child insecure attachment.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the direct and indirect associations between parental insecure attachment and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents, with particular emphasis on the mediating role of insecure attachment in the child and the differential contributions of paternal and matern...

The Relationship between Maternal Attachment Styles and Postpartum Depression Symptoms: The Moderating Role of Spousal Support

Parental fear of happiness and childhood loneliness among Chinese primary students: the mediation effect of parent-child attachment and peer attachment.

INTRODUCTION Childhood loneliness has emerged as a pressing concern, undermining children's psychological well-being and social functioning. Although fear of happiness has been linked to poorer psychological functioning, little is known about how parental fear of happiness influences children's loneliness. The present...

Positive parenting and its impact on positive development of adolescents and emerging adults across academic trajectories

The literature shows that parenting style is the main factor for the positive development of children at all stages of development. Positive development has been evaluated using various psychological constructs. This study analyzes this relationship using four constructs with a strong adaptive component: dispositional...

Formative Parental Competencies and Parenting Stress as Predictors of Children’s Self-Esteem

Background. Nurturing and responsive parenting, along with parental competencies that foster child development, are the foundation for healthy emotional and psychological growth, as they provide children and adolescents with a secure environment in which they feel valued, understood, and capable of coping with everyday...